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What Bentley Believes: 17-Page CO2 Manifesto Has Been Read
Bentley is refreshing. Their ultra-luxe, mega-horsepower sleds, favored rides of autocrats, royalty and rap tycoons, are such a specialized product that the Craftsmen of Crewe can pretty much reduce their whole climate-change/fuel-scarcity strategy to a question of customer relations. I promised I'd read the white paper on global warming etc. the company handed out at their New York Auto Show press conference yesterday—also available on Bentley's website—and now I have. Dry? To be sure. Wonky? Yep. But on the heels of the company's announcement at the Geneva Motor Show that it's going to seriously cut CO2 output by 2012, worth checking out. More »
4:45 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Matthew DeBord
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Latest by Shapeshifter: @Rob P: Full electrics 4 life! Also... @ash78: I wonder when people will start paying attention to that... Presumably at some time after we in the US stop pretending China is our bestest friend, i suppose... more »
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BBC Discovers Air Car, We Chuckle At Fill Up Procedure
We heard about the Tata backed and French developed Air Car back in January and are intrigued by the brilliantly simple concept. It seems the Beeb has caught wind of it too and recently ran the coverage you see above. The numbers on it are pretty exciting for something running like an air compressor with its valves reversed. A top speed of 110 km/h and a range of 200 km makes it seem almost useful. Predictions on production dates are to be taken with a grain of salt, but claims of the end of the year are bandied about. Wonder if it will be an available option on the Tata Nano?
el camino
While someone named Daryl selling an El Camino isn't usually news, it is when it's Daryl Hannah's matte black Biodiesel El Camino. World colliding man. Worlds colliding. The Chi-town native, actress and environmentalist will gladly sell you this factory diesel bio-conversion, along with the "fueling station" (read: storage drum and filter) and a guide to finding biodiesel in your area. WANT! It goes on sale later this month, but no price yet. Oh, and she's also selling a biod "ranch biobeast" for the low price of $14,999. Full pics and spelling error-filled details below (we're not hating, in fact we think her spelling matte black "matt black" is a sign she secretly likes us):
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Daryl Hannah's Biodiesel El Camino For Sale, Our Heads Explode
While someone named Daryl selling an El Camino isn't usually news, it is when it's Daryl Hannah's matte black Biodiesel El Camino. World colliding man. Worlds colliding. The Chi-town native, actress and environmentalist will gladly sell you this factory diesel bio-conversion, along with the "fueling station" (read: storage drum and filter) and a guide to finding biodiesel in your area. WANT! It goes on sale later this month, but no price yet. Oh, and she's also selling a biod "ranch biobeast" for the low price of $14,999. Full pics and spelling error-filled details below (we're not hating, in fact we think her spelling matte black "matt black" is a sign she secretly likes us):More »
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Tesla Nixes Battery Deal, to Focus on Not Building Cars
Tesla Motors' plans to sell battery packs to Norwegian company Think Global has been put on hold as the company plans to focus on shipping cars to the 600 people who paid a lot of money and still have nothing to drive (except a fleet of other cars, presuming they're very wealthy). It was hoped this deal would help Tesla diversify and maybe gain a little income to help with the cost of producing cars, but the cost and effort of producing the batteries interfered with the idea that they would make cars, which has been delayed until 2008. It's a great business model. Maybe they should just call the car the Tesla Motors Vista Leopard Roadster. [Greentech Media]
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Plug it in, Plug it in: NorCal Families to get Plug-In Hybrids
Transit planners at UC Davis and AAA will be giving away 100 hundred plug-in Toyota Prius hybrids to families chosen from the AAA database. Like other plug-in vehicles we've seen, these can get 100 MPG and are blind crushingly quiet. Testers will only get to try out the cars for eight weeks and will be constantly asked how they're liking them, to which they'll predictably reply: "It's so quiet" and "I don't have to put as much fuel in the car." The ultimate goal is to get people to think they could drive plug-ins by giving them plug-ins. Brilliant![SF GATE]
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